William Anderegg

Dr. William Anderegg is the director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy and a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah. He joined the faculty at Utah in 2015 and served as an Associate Research Scholar at the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University until 2016. He was a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral fellow at Princeton before that. Dr. Anderegg earned a B.A. in Human Biology and Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University. Dr. Anderegg has been recognized by National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation Faculty Development Early Career Science Program (CAREER); Blavatnik Foundation National Laureate in Life Sciences, Web of Science Global Highly Cited Researcher; Packard Foundation Fellow for Science and Engineering; and Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Anderegg’s research centers around the intersection of ecosystems and climate change. He studies how drought and climate change affect ecosystems, including tree physiology, ecohydrology, carbon cycling, and nature-based climate solutions.